Nine new partners and new Head of Sales driving triple-digit growth

Paris, London, Helsinki – April 13th, 2016 – MariaDB, the leading open source database provider for SaaS, cloud, and on-premises applications, today announced the addition of nine new partners to its reseller network. These partners will help MariaDB address rapidly growing demand across the continent. In 2015, MariaDB’s channel revenue in Europe doubled year over year, and the company expects that growth to accelerate even more in 2016. The carefully selected partners will be instrumental in educating buyers in large organisations and offering enterprise-grade open source solutions in local markets.

The new channel partners include Quru Limited, Kangaroot Linux Solutions, Conoa AB, Informator Utbildning Svenska AB, Redpill Linpro AS, Casalogic A/S, Netic A/S, OSEC and Adfinis SyGroup AG. Spread through Northern and Central Europe from the UK to Sweden, the partners allow MariaDB to reach enterprises with applications in areas such as Internet of Things (IoT), social media, banking, entertainment and eCommerce who are looking for the next-generation SQL database.

MariaDB is redoubling the focus on its partner program to support the surge in demand for its database driven by broad marketplace recognition of the open source model as the mandate for rapid innovation in IT infrastructure, and by MariaDB’s widespread distribution through Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and other major Linux vendors.

As MariaDB’s growth in Europe accelerates, the company has also announced the appointment of Paul Phillips as VP of Sales for EMEA and APAC. Phillips, an enterprise IT industry veteran and experienced sales leader, joins MariaDB from HortonWorks. He previously held sales executive roles at Composite Software, Thunderhead, and Watchfire, an IBM company.

Phillips commented on the potential of MariaDB, “Many enterprises are convinced open source is the way to go and are looking for an integrated, high-performance solution and expert support for the database they use for critical business applications.

“These businesses expect the rapid innovation and a reliable and secure environment for both operational and analytical data which MariaDB delivers.” Phillips also spoke about the importance of partners to MariaDB’s future. “The variety of applications and use cases that are moving to MariaDB as the database of choice continues to grow. Working with our partners allows MariaDB to meet the unique needs of every single customer, big or small.”

Robin Porter, Business Development Manager at Quru Limited, stated: “We are thrilled to be working with MariaDB. They provide us with state-of-the-art database solutions perfect for our customers looking to maximise the potential of their applications. Through our partnership we can provide the best open source data management solutions to businesses in the United Kingdom and Ireland.”

Peter Dens, Managing Director Kangaroot Linux Solutions, stated: “We have introduced many businesses to the benefits of using open source platforms, and this point will only be made stronger as we partner with MariaDB; which is the ‘M’ in the LAMP Stack. As the data storage and handling market continues to grow through cloud, machine to machine communications and data analytics, our customers will be comfortable in the knowledge that we are able to provide a robust, scalable database to suit their needs.”

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About MariaDB Corporation

MariaDB Corporation is a leader in open-source database solutions for SaaS, cloud, and on-premises applications that require high availability, scalability, and performance. Built by the creators of MySQL, MariaDB is the “M” in LAMP, having displaced MySQL as the default database in all major Linux distributions including Red Hat and SUSE. MariaDB is also included in Microsoft Azure, AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Rackspace and other cloud stacks. MariaDB has over 9 million users in more than 45 countries, including global brands such as HP, Wikipedia, Virgin Mobile, and Booking.com. For more information, visit mariadb.com.

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